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Over the past few days, Winter had grown more and more withdrawn.She couldn’t bring herself to eat. She barely wanted to open her eyes. It felt as if the whole world had drifted far away from her.Until she heard a familiar whimper.Winter finally opened her eyes and stared blankly at the German shepherd standing beside the bed, nuzzling her fingertips with his nose.General panted softly and wagged his tail, his eyes bright with excitement as he looked at his owner. He was waiting for her to call his name in that familiar, affectionate voice.But after waiting for a long time, he still didn’t hear Winter call him “General” the way she used to.General lowered his head sadly and moved a few steps closer to her hand. He rubbed his head against the back of her hand and let out a hurt little whine.Mr. White watched anxiously from the side and said to William, “I thought Ms. Winter might feel a little better once General came.”But now, even General didn’t seem to help.“Chris t

William knew better than anyone how much Winter had once looked forward to that child.It was the first time he had ever seen that kind of softness in her.A mother’s love for a baby who hadn’t even been born yet.*In a hospital room guarded by both the police and Chris’s bodyguards, Skyla lay on the bed with tubes connected all over her body. The machines beside her kept her vital signs steady.The lower half of the blanket lay flat against the mattress.There was no shape of legs beneath it.Skyla had lost both legs in the explosion. She was paralyzed from the waist down and had become disabled in the truest sense.Even if she survived, she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.But she would never get the chance to leave this place anyway.Chris had already turned over the evidence of her crimes to the police.Skyla had taken more than one life. She might not even live to see next spring before her sentence was carried out.Her eyes moved restlessly, and a br

His palm rested gently against the side of her face.“Winnie, just wait a little longer.”Chris thought back to the conversation he had with the doctor in the ICU upstairs before William came to find him.“Mr. Xander, Zac Davis is a match for Richie. Given our current resources and Richie’s condition, we can schedule the transplant for next week.”Richie’s condition was complicated. His bone marrow disorder had been caused by poisoning, which made his case very different from a standard bone marrow transplant.The doctor had warned Chris long ago to prepare himself.Even if the transplant succeeded, there was no guarantee Richie would survive.They would do everything they could. After that, it would depend on Richie himself.Just then, the phone in Chris’s pocket vibrated.It was Richie’s doctor.The doctor would only call him directly if it had something to do with Richie.Chris held the phone. With his other hand, he lifted Winter’s hand and kissed it once more before ans

William’s eyes were red, but he had seen the child in the video too.AI was advanced enough now to fake almost anything. But the little boy’s expressions were too real. Too vivid. There was nothing artificial about him.William was sure the video was real.He looked at Chris in disbelief, then looked again at the child’s surroundings. The medical equipment. The isolation room.How fragile did a child have to be to live like that?For a moment, William’s heart ached so badly he couldn’t speak.He was unrelated to the child, and even he felt like this.How was Winter supposed to handle it?Chris’s fingers tightened around the phone until his knuckles turned white. His other arm held Winter firmly as she teetered on the edge of collapse.He had to give her time to take this in. If he brought her straight to Richie and let her see how weak the child was, how tiny his hand looked with an IV in it, Winter would break completely. Her body wouldn’t be able to handle it.Chris drew a

The little boy had been crying, but once Winter held him, his tiny hands clutched tightly at her protective gown. Gradually, his sobs faded. He rubbed his little face against her chest, letting out a few soft, pitiful sniffles.Chris stopped mid-step.A faint glimmer moved through his eyes.The doctors and nurses in the isolation room froze too.When the door first opened, they hadn’t realized who Chris had brought in. The visor of the protective suit was clear, but none of them had met Winter before.Winter had been trending online before, but the story had come and gone quickly. As medical staff, they hadn’t paid much attention to it.It was only when she approached Richie, and Chris allowed her to reach for him, that they understood. Then she said, “I’m Mommy,” and every one of them was stunned.After keeping the truth hidden for so long, they had assumed Chris wouldn’t tell her that Richie was alive right now. At the very least, they thought he would wait until after the bon